Detention timescales
Lack of clear and consistent instructions and guidance regarding timescales for detention, impacting risk management.
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BAHA-35 - Detention Timescales Consistency
Theatre level detention instructions and guidance should be reviewed to ensure that references to timescales for detention are clear and consistent. Timescales for detention are an important aspect of managing the risk of abuse.
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terms: detention, timescale
Inquiry recommendation
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10 - Clarify authorisation for Rule 40 and Rule 42 segregation
The Home Office must amend, as a matter of urgency, Detention Services Order 02/2017: Removal from Association (Detention Centre Rule 40) and Temporary Confinement (Detention Centre Rule 42) and, if necessary, the Detention Services Operating Standards Manual for Immigration Service Removal Centres, to clarify who can authorise use of Rule 40 and Rule 42 of the Detention Centre...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
47match
20 - Update guidance on fit to fly and fit for detention medical assessments
The Home Office must review and update Detention Services Order 01/2016: The Protection, Use and Sharing of Medical Information Relating to People Detained Under Immigration Powers, to ensure that guidance given to GPs working in the immigration detention estate in relation to their duties and responsibilities in writing 'fit to fly and fit for detention' letters is clear....
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
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15 - New comprehensive use of force detention services order
The Home Office must introduce, as a matter of urgency, a new and comprehensive detention services order to address use of force in immigration removal centres. The detention services order must include the following issues: the permissible justifications for the use of force within immigration removal centres, based on the key principle that force must not be used...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
42match
18 - Update DSO on food and fluid refusal management and reporting
The Home Office must, as a matter of urgency, update Detention Services Order 03/2017: Care and Management of Detained Individuals Refusing Food and/or Fluid, to ensure that it deals with: food and fluid refusal being clearly and directly linked to consideration of the Rule 35 process and whether a detained person is defined as an 'adult at risk';...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
38match
22 - Update healthcare complaints handling guidance
The Home Office must review and update Detention Services Order 03/2015: Handling of Complaints to ensure that appropriate guidance is given to healthcare providers on the investigation and handling of complaints specific to the provision of healthcare in an immigration detention setting. The Home Office must ensure that training about the updated guidance takes place on a regular...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
38match
21 - Update mental vulnerability and mental capacity DSO guidance
The Home Office must review and update Detention Services Order 04/2020: Mental Vulnerability and Immigration Detention: Non-Clinical Guidance to set out comprehensive guidance for detention and healthcare staff where there are concerns that a detained person is suffering mental ill health or lacks mental capacity. This must include an appropriate system for: the routine handover or sharing of...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
38match
17 - Mandatory use of force debrief training and multi-level review process
The Home Office must ensure, as a matter of urgency, that training is delivered on how to conduct an effective use of force incident debrief, ensuring that issues of detained person and staff welfare, as well as training needs, are covered. The training must be mandatory for all immigration removal centre contractor employees who conduct such reviews and...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
34match
16 - Independent review of use of force on mentally ill detainees
The Home Office must urgently commission an independent review (with the power to make recommendations) of use of force on detained people with mental ill health within immigration removal centres. The review must consider: how, when and whether to use force on detained people with mental ill health (including the application of pain-inducing techniques); the likely effect of...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
34match
13 - Quarterly auditing of Rule 40 and Rule 42 use
The Home Office must regularly (and at least quarterly) audit the use of Rule 40 and Rule 42 across the immigration detention estate, in order to identify trends, any training needs and required improvements. In addition, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the National Chair and Management Board of Independent Monitoring Boards must review processes to consider how they...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
30match
25 - Ensure senior manager presence and accessibility to staff
Contractors operating immigration removal centres must ensure that senior managers are regularly present and visible within the immigration removal centre and are accessible to more junior detention staff.
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
30match
12 - Annual training on Rule 40 and Rule 42 segregation powers
The Home Office and contractors operating immigration removal centres must provide regular training, at least annually, on the operation of Rule 40 and Rule 42 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001, which must include: that Rules 40 and 42 are the only powers under which detained people in immigration removal centres can be removed from association and/or located...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
30match
9 - Ensure effective operation and auditing of all Rule 35 limbs
The Home Office must, across the immigration detention estate, assure itself that all three limbs of Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001 (reports by a medical practitioner where: (i) it is likely that a detained person's health would be injuriously affected by continued detention (Rule 35(1)); (ii) it is suspected that a detained person has suicidal...
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terms: detention
Inquiry recommendation
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19 - Healthcare staff guidance and training on use of force incidents
The Home Office must ensure that guidance is issued to healthcare staff in immigration removal centres clarifying their role in use of force incidents. It must liaise as necessary with NHS England and any relevant medical regulators. The Home Office must ensure that mandatory training is introduced for healthcare staff, and those responsible for managing them, on their...
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24 - Mandatory staff training on mental health and trauma-informed approaches
The Home Office, in conjunction with contractors, must ensure that all relevant immigration removal centre staff receive mandatory introductory and annual training on: mental health; race and diversity; a trauma-informed approach; their own resilience; drug awareness; and the purpose of immigration removal centres. This training must include the perspectives of, or be conducted in consultation with, detained people....
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23 - Quarterly assessment of staffing levels against population needs
The Home Office and contractors operating immigration removal centres must ensure that there is ongoing assessment of staffing levels (at least on a quarterly basis), so that the level of staff present within each centre is appropriate for the size and needs of the detained population. The Home Office must also ensure that the detained population does not...
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14 - Prohibit handcuffing behind back while seated
The Home Office and contractors operating immigration removal centres must ensure that all staff are aware that the technique of handcuffing detained people with their hands behind their back while seated is not permitted, given its association with positional asphyxia.
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11 - Review E Wing suitability for vulnerable detainees
The Home Office and the current operator of Brook House must keep under review the appropriateness of the multi-purpose use of E Wing, particularly in relation to its suitability as a location to detain vulnerable people.
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